re: #488 LGoPs

The Democrats/Socialisst have long made the pie argument. If the rich take more slices, there are less slices for the poor. Their whole argument is based on a static pie and that argument is flawed. A better way to look at it is that the more ingredients you add the bigger the pie gets. the ingredients are private investment, hard work, individual effort. To feed socialsim, the governemnt mi=ust take away those iingredients that are made up of individual contributions and in doing so they shrink the pie so that everyone eventually has less. Socialism brings everyone down to the least common denominator and that is why it fails.

“The root difference between the Conservatives and the Liberals of today is that Conservatives take account of the whole man, while the Liberals tend to look only at the material side of man’s nature. The Conservative believes that man is, in part, an economic, an animal creature; but that he is also a spiritual creature with spiritual needs and spiritual desires. What is more, these needs and desires reflect the superior side of man’s nature, and thus take precedence over his economic wants. Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man’s spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of “concern for “human beings” — regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.“
Barry Goldwater
Conscience of A Conservative.